Sean Innis
Author
Of(f) Course Minister
Sean Innis is a modestly impoverished writer. His mantra is deeper thinking for a better world. Believing this helps him sleep at night.
In his book, Of[f] Course Minister, Sean warns of an awkward truth emerging deep inside government. Rather than supporting responsible government, the relationship between ministers, public servants and the parliament is undermining it. Sean explains why this is, what it means, and what can be done about it.
Sean is an honorary fellow at the Australian National University and an adjunct fellow at the University of New South Wales. He is a senior fellow at the think tank and ADC Forum, and an associate at Queritas – a firm of consulting philosophers. Sean is an expert columnist for The Mandarin.
Before writing full-time, Sean had several (ahem) real jobs. He was inaugural director of the Public Policy Hub at ANU and was special adviser to the Productivity Commission. Before this, Sean was a senior executive in the Australian Public Service. He has also been an ordinary university tutor and a rather terrible bank teller.
National President of the Institute of Public Administration Australia, Andrew Metcalfe AO, describes Of[f] Course Minister as ‘compulsory reading’ for ‘everyone who cares about the quality of our governments’.
